WTB: old free google apps account

Anyone have an older* free (standard?) google apps account that they would be willing to part with? I have one, but it has a 10 account limit, and family members that want to use it >10 now. Let me know ericATsluderDOTorg thanks!

*older as in created before May, 2011, I will have tears of joy bottled for one created before January, 2009.

So consider this a free bump. I found mine is from Jan 2008, i never used any of their apps, just gmail. Is it too late for me to sign up? anything i see related to google apps now says for enterprise.

So consider this a free bump. I found mine is from Jan 2008, i never used any of their apps, just gmail. Is it too late for me to sign up? anything i see related to google apps now says for enterprise.

So consider this a free bump. I found mine is from Jan 2008, i never used any of their apps, just gmail. Is it too late for me to sign up? anything i see related to google apps now says for enterprise.

Phillip

If you have google apps already, there's nothing to sign up for - you already have it. You would have had to registered a domain to your apps account, if that helps determine anything - so if you use an email address like phillip@phillipsdomain.com which happens to be hosted via google/gmail, then you're using google apps. If you're using something like phillip@gmail.com, then you're not.

If you haven't gotten a google apps account prior to December 12, 2012, then you can not get a "free" google apps account anymore*. It costs I believe $5/year/user for Google Apps now.

*Caveat: You CAN get a "free" single-user google apps account by signing up for google appengine, since appengine essentially requires an email address and user account to function properly. However you only get ONE account only, and therefore other than tying it to your own domain name it is no more useful than using @gmail.com.

you only get ONE account only, and therefore other than tying it to your own domain name it is no more useful than using @gmail.com.

Unless you set it up as a catchall and filter from there. Just a thought.

Oh, and my personal Gmail account dates back to April 17th, 2004. My business one is October 2004. No way in heck anyone's ever prying either of them away from me, though.

Right, but a catch-all isn't useful in the overall context of GApps except for email really. I suppose with some creative thinking you might be able to do something with calendar and docs, but really the main purpose of hosting GApps under a domain is to provide ACLs and a compartmentalized (re: business-centric) set of collaborative applications that are hosted under one domain. There's a bunch of stuff you wouldn't really be able to do without having accounts themselves hosted under an apps domain. But for most non-business entities, it wouldn't matter much.

you only get ONE account only, and therefore other than tying it to your own domain name it is no more useful than using @gmail.com.

Unless you set it up as a catchall and filter from there. Just a thought.

Oh, and my personal Gmail account dates back to April 17th, 2004. My business one is October 2004. No way in heck anyone's ever prying either of them away from me, though.

Right, but a catch-all isn't useful in the overall context of GApps except for email really. I suppose with some creative thinking you might be able to do something with calendar and docs, but really the main purpose of hosting GApps under a domain is to provide ACLs and a compartmentalized (re: business-centric) set of collaborative applications that are hosted under one domain. There's a bunch of stuff you wouldn't really be able to do without having accounts themselves hosted under an apps domain. But for most non-business entities, it wouldn't matter much.

A fair point. Most businesses wouldn't be stressing on the free account, though, thus the catchall thought. I agree that, really, it's a poor solution.

you only get ONE account only, and therefore other than tying it to your own domain name it is no more useful than using @gmail.com.

Unless you set it up as a catchall and filter from there. Just a thought.

Oh, and my personal Gmail account dates back to April 17th, 2004. My business one is October 2004. No way in heck anyone's ever prying either of them away from me, though.

Right, but a catch-all isn't useful in the overall context of GApps except for email really. I suppose with some creative thinking you might be able to do something with calendar and docs, but really the main purpose of hosting GApps under a domain is to provide ACLs and a compartmentalized (re: business-centric) set of collaborative applications that are hosted under one domain. There's a bunch of stuff you wouldn't really be able to do without having accounts themselves hosted under an apps domain. But for most non-business entities, it wouldn't matter much.

A fair point. Most businesses wouldn't be stressing on the free account, though, thus the catchall thought. I agree that, really, it's a poor solution.

For risk of making SmackDaddy mad and pulling this too much farther off topic than we already have (I promise this will be the last one from me)...

In my case, I use it for my family. With my kids, for example, I can use GTalk under my domain, while explicitly making it so that it will NOT communicate with anyone outside of my domain. So we can all chat amongst ourselves while I don't have to worry about my kids getting IM spam from random freaks on the net. I can also set up "groups" and assign various people to them (same as what you would do in AD), so that I could mass-email the kids something in one fell swoop. There's calendaring, sites, etc. Honestly, I barely scratch the surface of what I could do with GApps. Plus, I'm the admin of the whole thing, so if something bad happens I can easily "get in" to any of the accounts if needed (I look at it as parental controls in a way).

Personally, it sucks that they took away a free option for startups and whatnot. But a product needs to make money somehow I guess.

**Bumping this for Sebastian** Somebody has got to have a GApps account they're not using.

Well this has been a learning experience. The free bumps were appreciated and the information is helpful. So here are a few things I've learned.

1) My current apps account is tied to my main/original domain (so if move it to different account I loose this one)2) You can add domains under your main account. The user count is for each domain ie if mainDomain user limit is 50, you can have 50 users in X domain and 50 users in Y domain etc Also you can't replace the main domain with a different one. 3) AppDev is for real and has decent prices. Initially I saw a one user post count and chalked up spammer especially since I got an email from him via a yahoo account. Well the email was coherent and wasn't asking for my SSN & bank account info and I saw his postings on other forums that i'm a member of (LET). There people that bought domains / Gapps from him have reported back that the transaction went smoothly and reccomended him.4) If you missed out on Google apps, you can do the same thing with outlook.com and think will give you access to MS Office online for free.

I wonder if we will get a cloud forum, there's probably a lot of online resources that I'm missing out on due to ignorance.

f you have google apps already, there's nothing to sign up for - you already have it. You would have had to registered a domain to your apps account, if that helps determine anything - so if you use an email address like phillip@phillipsdomain.com which happens to be hosted via google/gmail, then you're using google apps. If you're using something like phillip@gmail.com, then you're not.

If you haven't gotten a google apps account prior to December 12, 2012, then you can not get a "free" google apps account anymore*. It costs I believe $5/year/user for Google Apps now.

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making offers? I was only responding to a WTB thread. but no problem. I'll erase my posts anyway.

As far as I know, what you are buying is the domain that the apps account is tied to. FYI, You can also use an apps account tied to an expired domain, but if someone (re)registers the domain its possible for them to take control over the apps account. I really thought this would have autolocked, it is now